Ever noticed that when you copy an email address from OS X Mail app and paste it elsewhere that you get the addressees full name as well as their email address? Try it yourself by right-clicking on someones email address like someonesname@domain.com and copy it, then paste it elsewhere and it will show up as “Someones Name “, which can be fairly annoying if you just want an address.

To resolve this copy/paste annoyance from the Mac Mail app, launch Terminal and paste this line into the command line:

I’m going to take this opportunity to ask about a somehow related problem.

For some reason the Mail app has stopped using all my Gmail contacts for auto-completion when I’m writing a new email. It only uses “My Contacts” but not the ones that Gmail categorizes as “Other Contacts”. The latter are the ones automatically created every time you share a few emails with a new person.

This used to work but it stopped (maybe it was my fault, I don’t know). Does any one know how can I get this back?

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